Catalog for Fenway Court, Edited Draft by Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Date1914-1915
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsArchival Material
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.007882
eMuseum ID722733
EmbARK ObjectID33657
TMS Source ID17139
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink: Fenway Court - / The Entrance door of the / Exhibition leads into an / antechamber, from which / on the left is a small room / hung with yellow damask. / On the walls are modern / paintings, ([illeg] on the / left,) by [illeg], Diaz, / Sargent, Ziorn, Dante Gabriel / Rossetti, Whistler, Degas, / WhistlerJ. Appleton Brown, / Matisse, [illeg], / La Farge (on the door + wall / watercolrs by Sargent) / Joseph Lindon Smith, Kronberg / In the room on the right / of the [illeg] are
Inscribed in ink: modern paintings by / Manet, J.L. Smith, / Rora Gorcheur, [illeg], [illleg] / Ross, Jaques, / Delacroix, Bunker / Neaueuns, Faren, Besua / Bunker, J.L. Smith, Sargent, / La Farge, Zorn, Curtis, / Smith, 5 [illeg] knights + / watercolor by Sargent, / there containing [illeg] the / room, Ross, Courbet, / Lockwood, Andersen, / Slade, J. Vaumeer, W. [illeg], / Cushing, W. James, / Carot, Zorn + / Sargent -
Inscribed in ink: opposite the foot of stairs / Fine Gothic head... / stone. date 1522 - / Byzantine altar stores [illeg] / [illeg] into wall on staircase. / First Gallery. / Enter the room of Early / Italian Paintings through / door of Florentine Intarisa / work. Turning to right the / paintings are by Mantegna, / Leonardo Scaletti, Cosimo a Fara; over [illeg], Angolo Gaddi, / under them B. Cafeorali; / then continuing roud the room, / Masaccio, Pesellino, / Bacchiacea; over these
Inscribed in ink: Ercole by Piero dei Franceschi. Beyond the / doors are paintings by / Lorenzo di Credi, Pesellino, / Matteo da Gualdo [?]; under / these on table Gentile Bellini, / + above them, fine paintins / by Simone martini - / Continuing round the / room, a Bishop by Gainsboro / over it old Gothic picture - / between the - [illeg] doors San / Antonio enthroned by / Lorenzo di Niccolo circa 1410 - 20. / [illeg] triptych by / Vanni -
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Paintings marked (in catlogue / are in Early Italian Room -
Inscribed in ink: From the Raphael Room / you pass through the Short Gallery, where are / etchings, portraits + / textilesto / the Tapestry Room. / there are two sets of / Flemish Tapestries. / On table in window a / painting of santa Eugracia / by Verenejo, / Backing it, portrait of / Innocent X by Velasquez. /Pass through this room / to Dutch Room.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): is Landscape by Rembrandt.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Demencio Veneziano
Inscribed in pencil (center): Lastly, from the cloisters / you pass into the Spanish / Cloister, there is the / painting "El Jaleo" by / J.S. Sargent.
Inscribed in ink: modern paintings by / Manet, J.L. Smith, / Rora Gorcheur, [illeg], [illleg] / Ross, Jaques, / Delacroix, Bunker / Neaueuns, Faren, Besua / Bunker, J.L. Smith, Sargent, / La Farge, Zorn, Curtis, / Smith, 5 [illeg] knights + / watercolor by Sargent, / there containing [illeg] the / room, Ross, Courbet, / Lockwood, Andersen, / Slade, J. Vaumeer, W. [illeg], / Cushing, W. James, / Carot, Zorn + / Sargent -
Inscribed in ink: opposite the foot of stairs / Fine Gothic head... / stone. date 1522 - / Byzantine altar stores [illeg] / [illeg] into wall on staircase. / First Gallery. / Enter the room of Early / Italian Paintings through / door of Florentine Intarisa / work. Turning to right the / paintings are by Mantegna, / Leonardo Scaletti, Cosimo a Fara; over [illeg], Angolo Gaddi, / under them B. Cafeorali; / then continuing roud the room, / Masaccio, Pesellino, / Bacchiacea; over these
Inscribed in ink: Ercole by Piero dei Franceschi. Beyond the / doors are paintings by / Lorenzo di Credi, Pesellino, / Matteo da Gualdo [?]; under / these on table Gentile Bellini, / + above them, fine paintins / by Simone martini - / Continuing round the / room, a Bishop by Gainsboro / over it old Gothic picture - / between the - [illeg] doors San / Antonio enthroned by / Lorenzo di Niccolo circa 1410 - 20. / [illeg] triptych by / Vanni -
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Paintings marked (in catlogue / are in Early Italian Room -
Inscribed in ink: From the Raphael Room / you pass through the Short Gallery, where are / etchings, portraits + / textilesto / the Tapestry Room. / there are two sets of / Flemish Tapestries. / On table in window a / painting of santa Eugracia / by Verenejo, / Backing it, portrait of / Innocent X by Velasquez. /Pass through this room / to Dutch Room.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): is Landscape by Rembrandt.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Demencio Veneziano
Inscribed in pencil (center): Lastly, from the cloisters / you pass into the Spanish / Cloister, there is the / painting "El Jaleo" by / J.S. Sargent.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1926
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1914-1915
